By simply being accepted into Harvard Business School, Philip Delves Broughton and his 900 fellow MBA candidates entered an uberclass. For HBS is a brand as much as it is a school, Delves Broughton writes in Ahead of the Curve, his absorbing firsthand account of the intense two-year MBA program. And by attending, he says, they were associating themselves with one of the greatest brands in business.

Sen. Hillary Clinton may or may not have been on the brink of tears in a highly publicized moment on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. And that moment of emotion may or may not have helped her to a come-from-behind win at the polls.